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It's funny how the "I see the value in crypto" and "I see the value in a metaverse" have turned into exactly the same group. There seems to be this bisection of groups, 1 group of people who seem just fine with technology as it is today. And another group that wants to launch into the next phase of digitalization.

Although both seem okay with using AI.

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I see the value in crypto, but as a chronological consensus, not as a currency.

I see the value in the metaverse, but as a cheaper lower fidelity alternative for the real world, not a more productive version of it. The metaverse as a replacement for the real world, IMO, will always be a cheap copy, and only suitable for things which in the real world are uneconomical, impractical or impossible.

Neuralink-style HMIs on the other hand I see as a potential alternative to working with computers. Who needs goggles when you're part of the machine?

> Neuralink-style HMIs

Cyperpunk is interesting as an aesthetic and all that but I’d never in a million years would want to actually live in that dystopian nightmare.

I mean I want to launch into the next phase of digitalization, I just don't want it to be this stupid.

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